postéevsposterTell them apart

Quick tell: postée is a adjective, poster is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“postée” is an adjective and “poster” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#19,947
“postée” frequency rank
#5,385
“poster” frequency rank
25332
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature postée poster
Definition Féminin singulier de posté. Affiche dont la fonction est essentiellement décorative, qui n’est pas ou a cessé d’être publicitaire.

Where the eye mixes postée and poster

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. postée (CVCCVV) and poster (CVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

6 ch
postée
6 ch
poster

Look-alike desk: postée vs poster

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: postée is \pɔs.te\ while poster is \pɔs.tɛʁ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25332, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

postée is recorded at frequency rank #19,947, classified as anadj, pronounced \pɔs.te\. poster is at rank #5,385, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pɔs.tɛʁ\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 25332, this pair ranks #341,461 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of postée vs poster

Shared letters: eopst. Private to "postée": é. Private to "poster": r.

"postée" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV  ·  "poster" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • poster ← opster · posetr · posster · posterr · postre · postter · potser · pposter

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "postée" and "poster" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "postée" is an adjective and "poster" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "postée" or "poster" show up more?
"poster" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,385 in our French list, against #19,947 for "postée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "postée" and "poster" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "postée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "poster" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #341,461 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "postée" and "poster" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pontet vs postée". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #341,461 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list